Jane Kim (artist) explained

Jane Kim
Birth Place:United States
Education:Rhode Island School of Design,
California State University, Monterey Bay
Known For:Conservation murals
Style:Scientific illustration
Website:http://inkdwell.com/

Jane Kim (born 1981) is an American painter, science illustrator and the founder of the Ink Dwell studio. She is best known for her large-scale murals, created with the purpose of promoting advocacy of the natural world.

Biography

Jane Kim was born in 1981, and raised in Mount Prospect, Illinois.[1] [2] Kim studied at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received her B.F.A. in printmaking in 2003.[3] She moved to San Francisco the same year of her graduation in 2003, living initially in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Kim later attended California State University, Monterey Bay to study scientific illustration, graduating in 2010.[4]

In 2012, Kim started the process of creating the Migrating Mural, a series of six murals featuring Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep.[5] The murals span 120 miles of California’s Highway 395. Fundraising for the project took place on the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter.[6]

Kim was a featured artist in the Facebook Artist Residency program.[7] Her work is located in a Facebook campus stairwell featuring graphic portraits of local, native birds and a second mural with illustrations of the local Facebook campus foxes.[8] [9]

In 2015, Kim completed a 70-foot by 40-foot mural called the Wall of Birds at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology.[10] [11] The mural depicts 243 modern bird families, all life size and superimposed on a map of the earth. It took her two and a half years to complete the work.

In 2016, Kim served as an artist-in-residency at the De Young (museum) and explored the idea of native and non-native ecology in San Francisco.[12]

In 2017, Kim painted the Flora From Fauna series of six murals around Redwood City, California to commemorate a lost industry of the 1920s when Japanese immigrants were growing and exporting chrysanthemums from the city.[13] Unfortunately much of the chrysanthemum industry was lost during World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans.

InkDwell studio moved to Half Moon Bay, California in 2018 and is by appointment only.[14] [15] [16] In 2023, she was interviewed by Half Moon Bay Review where she highlighted that she has been focusing on making her art pieces more nature-oriented and further stating, "Nature has always been my muse, but in art school I was discouraged from doing this kind of work."[17]

Publications

Murals

This is a list of select murals completed by InkDwell studio and Jane Kim.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kim, Jane, 1981-. VIAF, OCLC.
  2. Web site: Hageman. William. Artist creates a 3,000-square-foot mural devoted to birds. 2020-08-31. chicagotribune.com. 30 November 2015 . said the 34-year-old artist who grew up in Mount Prospect..
  3. Web site: News: Protecting Endangered Species. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). 2015-12-28.
  4. Web site: Painting on Walls: The Art and Illustrations of Jane Kim. 2015-11-01. 2015-12-27. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI).
  5. Web site: Conservation Art: Jane Kim's Migrating Murals. Sierra. 2015-12-28. en-US. The Sierra Club. Pandika. Melissa.
  6. Web site: Saving Nature Through Art: Jane Kim and Her Migrating Murals. 7x7 Magazine. 2015-12-28. 2012-09-28.
  7. Web site: Facebook 'Likes' Art. The Daily Beast. 2014-05-14. 2015-12-28. Ann. Binlot.
  8. Web site: Art and the Corporate Life: Facebook Artist in Residence Program. Art Business. 2015-12-28.
  9. Web site: Up in the AIR: How will tech residencies reshape Bay Area art?. Rhizome. 20 January 2015 . 2015-12-28.
  10. News: Jane Kim's Bird Mural. The New York Times. 2015-12-08. 2015-12-28. 0362-4331.
  11. News: This Monumental Mural Depicting the Evolution of Birds Took 2½ Years to Paint. Slate. 2015-12-10. 2015-12-28. 1091-2339. en-US.
  12. Web site: "(non)NATIVE", by June Artist-in-Residence Jane Kim. 2016-03-10. de Young Museum. 2016-04-28.
  13. News: San Francisco artist festoons Redwood City with wildlife bearing flowers. Curbed SF. 2018-02-22.
  14. News: Wildlife-centered art studio opens. Clark. Zachary. June 2, 2018. San Mateo Daily Journal. 2018-06-08. en.
  15. News: Artist, studio swim into Harbor Village. Guz. Sarah Griego. May 30, 2018. Half Moon Bay Review. 2018-06-08. en.
  16. Web site: Tokofsky . Peter . 2023-07-05 . Art and science converge in redwoods project . 2024-01-31 . Half Moon Bay Review . en.
  17. Web site: Tokofsky . Peter . 2023-07-05 . Art and science converge in redwoods project . 2024-01-31 . Half Moon Bay Review . en.
  18. Web site: First of New Mural Series Installed in Springdale. 2017-09-26. KNWA. en-US. 2019-10-03.
  19. Web site: At-risk monarch butterfly the subject of public art at Springdale airport. Joyner. Jennifer. 2017-09-07. Talk Business & Politics.
  20. Web site: Large-Scale Art Makes Tiny Creatures 'Impossible to Ignore'. 2017-11-28. National Geographic Society Newsroom. en-US. 2019-10-03.
  21. Web site: Migrating Mural: Ogden spreading its wings with monarch murals around town. Saal. Mark. 2018-09-17. Standard-Examiner. en. 2019-10-03.
  22. Web site: Massive mural planned for Tenderloin aims to make Monarch butterflies "impossible to ignore". Hoodline. 2 October 2019 . 2019-10-03.

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